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  Coverart by TheGirlInTheBigBox. Visit her online art portfolio by clicking here: http://thegiriInthebigbox.deviantart.com/ Welcome!  In 2011, my main focus will be on writing a novel. Since I'm a novice novelist, I've decided to come at the project from different angles, exploring the genre and experimenting with its elements. This blog and its offsite sister blog will be my journals where I attack novel-writing one day at a time.As I was creating my BlogSpot page, the inspiration for the blog solidified in my mind. I named that blog "One Significant Moment at a Time." In essence, I want to use the format as a reminder to walk through my life with my author's eyes open, taking in the details, feeling the emotions of the day. As moments unfold and I feel their affects on me as a person, a woman, a mother, a sister, a member of the world community, I'll let the writer in me talk about it. Creative Nonfiction is the genre most fitting to describe what I envision accomplishing here, moreso than blogging or journaling. The style is best suited, I feel, for my ambitions as a novelist. In addition, Friday entries will not be written by me. Instead, I'll turn the keyboard over to one of the characters in my novel. He or she will relate the events of the day as s/he saw them, through the filter of his or her perception. ** Image ID #1779494 Unavailable **  Click this image to visit my Blog City neighbors! I'd Love Your Help If you've read my blog before, and find yourself here again, won't you click this link and check out my BlogSpot? http://www.nicoleducleroir.blogspot.com Leave me a comment there, and I'll send you a WDC token of my appreciation! Become a Follower there, and I'll send you a Supportive Merit Badge! -- You don't have to go to blogspot.com each day; in fact, I post much of the same entries here in this WDC blog. But building up a verifiable readership may prove important one day when I'm knocking on literary agent/publishers' doors! To Follow, just click "Follow" on the right margin of my blog page. You'll have to sign in using, or create, a Google account (it's free and only takes two minutes!), and then follow the short instructions. It's easy, and I'd appreciate it so much!!Merit Badges Sent To:   ~Noelle ~ TY Anon!   ~~sunshine014 ( Where'd Ashy go??)~~Mara ♣ McBain  ~~Adriana Noir ~~Jaeff | KBtW of the Free Folk  ~~🌷 Carol St.Ann 🌷  ~ Leave me a comment anytime ~ even on older postings! Thanks for reading!! |
| You probably don't know me, so let me introduce myself. I'm NickiD89. Username: heftynicki. I stumbled upon Writing.com on November 8, 2007 because I had a story to tell. Actually, it turned out that I had a lot of stories... but I didn't know that at the time. At the time I had one. So on that chilly day outside Atlanta,GA, I did a Google search because I wanted to know... how does the author of a story prove they were the author, after the story is published online? I chose the keywords "copyright laws for fiction writers." Little did I know it, but my life was literally about to change forever. The first site in my search results? A little website called Writing.com. I clicked on it. And I was home. I created an account at Writing.com. I was nervous, but I was exhilerated. One thing to understand. At that time, I didn't have a Facebook account. MySpace was only 2 years old, at the time. Twitter was pubescent, and for the most part, the Internet was wild, unchartered frontier. We were warned about stalkers. What about the preditors? Those of us who ventured online protected ourselves. We invented online personas, reflected in our User Names, and we nurtured our online identites. Feels like a lifetime ago. Last weekend, my daughter told me she'd created an account at Writing.com. She's an English Lit major at Columbus State University in Georgia. I was beyond thrilled. I remember the homemade card, circa 2008, on which her 8-year-old-hand had written "Happy First WDC Anniversary, Mama!" I was so touched now, knowing she too had an online portfolio where she could store her stories and poems. Naturally, as soon as she told me her username, I logged in and became a fan. And I noticed so many of my dear friends are still here! And there are so many changes too...though so much is the same. I feel... a spark reignited in my writer's soul. I want to tell stories. Move people, provoke thought -- Inspire. I want to write.       To Follow Me On Twitter Click HERE!  And Follow My Blog "One Significant Moment At A Time," by Clicking Here! |
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It's been a while since I wrote anything I'm proud of. Working hard right now so I won't be able to say that anymore! Hope your week's off to a great start. Thinking of you!!!